This site is an expanded and significantly upgraded version of the Flickr Commons based tool I wrote several years ago. As well as a major design/UX overhaul, it now includes data from further providers such as those available through Europeana, and also the Imperial War Museum. I'd welcome further suggestions as the harvesting tool and database are easily extendable.
For information, questions and bug reports please contact James Morley @jamesinealing | james@jamesmorley.net
The data has been harvested from providers using some custom php scripts to query respective APIs based on dates. Data is harmonised and stored in a local mySql database.
Additional jQuery plugins are used to enhance the display, including Masonry and Bootstrap Image Gallery (based on blueimp).
The code is openly licensed so please feel free to copy, modify, distribute as you please. It will be shared on Github shortly!
Gunner Frederick Lawrence Illingworth L/5887, Royal Field Artillery
Died 2 August 1915
Lives of the First World War
Private Albert Burt Carpenter 17166, Prince Albert's (Somerset Light Infantry)
Died 2 August 1915
Lives of the First World War
Private Daniel O'Connell 10221, Somerset Light Infantry
Died 2 August 1915
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Serjeant Robert Roland Nairn 4/654, New Zealand Engineers
Died 2 August 1915
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2nd Lieutenant Ian Murray Paterson Brown , attached Seaforth Highlanders
Died 2 August 1916
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Private Francis William Oclee TF/3033, The Buffs (East Kent Regiment)
Died 2 August 1916
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Private John Charles James 4301, Australian Infantry, A.I.F
Died 2 August 1916
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Private Richard Bilsborough 4400, The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
Died 2 August 1916
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Private Thomas Haylor 4509, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 2 August 1916
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Private Walter Davis Souls 17209, Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)
Died 2 August 1916
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Second Lieutenant Ernest Hugh William Brett , Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
Died 2 August 1916
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Acting Bombardier Thomas Sinclair 45623, 112th Brigade Royal Field Artillery
Died 2 August 1917
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Gunner Alfred Charles King 98877, 112th Brigade Royal Field Artillery
Died 2 August 1917
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Gunner Charles William Victor Taylor 146339, 112th Brigade Royal Field Artillery
Died 2 August 1917
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Gunner Hamilton Goldsworthy Jones 1372, South African Heavy Artillery
Died 2 August 1917
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Gunner Hugh Hornby Lonsdale 136351, Royal Field Artillery
Died 2 August 1917
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Gunner Joseph Skidmore 77005, 112th Brigade Royal Field Artillery
Died 2 August 1917
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Gunner Samuel Cooper 88056, 112th Brigade Royal Field Artillery
Died 2 August 1917
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Lieutenant Albert John Edwards , Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment)
Died 2 August 1917
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Lieutenant Kenneth Fleetwood Gordon Pinhey , Royal Field Artillery
Died 2 August 1917
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Lieutenant Rupert George Carrington Napier , Grenadier Guards
Died 2 August 1917
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Private Albert Bladon 71107, Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)
Died 2 August 1917
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Private Albert Edward Breach SD/397, Royal Sussex Regiment
Died 2 August 1917
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Private George Ripley 14223, The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment)
Died 2 August 1917
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Private George William Taplin 14896, Hampshire Regiment
Died 2 August 1917
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Private George William Turnbull 3/9141, West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own)
Died 2 August 1917
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Private James Theophilus Johnson 12263, British West Indies Regiment
Died 2 August 1917
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Private Joseph Wragg 35887, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
Died 2 August 1917
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Private William Charles Cook 26602, Hampshire Regiment
Died 2 August 1917
Lives of the First World War
Sergeant Charles Snape 48522, 112th Brigade Royal Field Artillery
Died 2 August 1917
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Sergeant Sidney James Nye GS/700, Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment)
Died 2 August 1917
Lives of the First World War
Serjeant Frank Borkin, D.C.M. 24223, 112th Brigade Royal Field Artillery
Died 2 August 1917
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Acting Corporal William Thomas Billing P.1850, Military Foot Police
Died 2 August 1918
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Lieutenant George Leslie Drewry VC , Royal Naval Reserve
Died 2 August 1918
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Petty Officer (Leading Cooks Mate) Graydon Wright M/4370, HMS Vehement
Died 2 August 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private Albert Jones 254669, London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers)
Died 2 August 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private George Emanuel 32835, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 2 August 1918
Lives of the First World War